Symptoms of an officer crop caught in past unable/unwanting to learn and be young in strategy and performance.Rakesh wrote: The current generation of senior IAF leadership are all 80s vintage. In the 80s, the IAF was going through a massive transformation. The 70s saw the Ajeets, Maruts, Su-7s, etc all retire. And that was replaced with a mixture of Western and Russian combat aircraft ---> Jaguar IS, Mirage 2000, MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-27 and MiG-29 ....
....This current impasse of I-must-have-114-phoren-fighters-and-will-hold-my-breath-till-I-turn-BLUE is coming from a generation of IAF leaders who have not had a very pleasant experience with HAL when they were junior pilots (Pilot Officers, Flying Officers, Flight Lieutenants,) in the 80s. You have some rare stand outs - like Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria - but they are too few. By the 2030s, the 90s-vintage commission officers will start effecting valuable Atmanirbhar Bharat change into the IAF and the 2000s-vintage officers (who will start getting leadership roles in the 2040s), will only accelerate on that gas pedal.
The goal right now though is to hold out and hope that this lot of 80s-vintage commissioned officers don't make too much of a mess for the next generation of IAF leaders to clean up. So hopefully the GOI will see the wisdom .......
It is such a useless apex of pyramid that IAF would be better off to do a fresh out of collage recruitment drive for Air Marshal position !!!! Qty-12
Pressure steam deep cleaning to take out the grime.